• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.23-44
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• 2022

With the development of blockchain technology, play-to-earn (P2E) games, one of the decentralized applications (dApps), are receiving great social attention. P2E games are positively evaluated as areas with high growth potential based on blockchain technology, and at the same time, they are negatively evaluated as speculative as people can cash P2E game items in the form of cryptocurrency. In this situation, the purpose of this study is to investigate factors affecting the intention to use P2E games. Along with the discussion of hedonic system adoption, we consider the factors with perceived enjoyment, economic incentive, and social influence. In order to verify our research model, data were collected from 350 adults with P2E game experience or recognition, and a structural equation model was carried out. The analysis results find that perceived enjoyment and subjective norm have a significant positive effect on the intention to use P2E games, and economic incentive does not have a significant effect. In addition, peer influence and external influence have a significant positive effect on subjective norm. Drawing on these findings, we present several academic and practical implications for future research.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.3-12
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• 2009

In this study, by both qualitative and quantitative measurement on the purpose of deriving the sensitive amusement factor. I consider the fear of horror games as "the amused fear" and analyze it, which is based on the play theory by Roger Caillois. On the basis of this, I classified the amusement fear in horror games into the 4 factors. I conducted some positive tests through the player's response in order to verify them. The test is conducted measuring the heart rate of each experimenter by cardiometer while they are playing horror games. By analyzing the video data, I gave a name to the point that the amusement fear factors are expected to influence psychologically and physiologically as the fear point. At this point, I examined if the measured heart rate makes the outstanding difference or not, when compared average heart rate with experimenter's heart rate. In addition, I also examined if there is a statistical correlation of heart rate by attaching player's subjective data through the questionnaire. Consequently, it was statistically turned out that the experimenter's heart rate which is measured rose dramatically than usual, and that there are close correlations among subjective data. I also found out that the amusement fear factor at the relevant point plays a major role in experimenter's psychological and physiological response. In this study, I could prove the horror factor as a meaning of amusement factor using both theoretical method and positive method establishing a standard set that is helpful for further production and planning of the game.

• The Journal of Society for e-Business Studies
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.1-14
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• 2019

Because of the characteristics of game software, it is important to quickly identify and reflect users' needs into game software after its launch. However, most sites such as the Google Play Store, where users can download games and post reviews, provide only very limited and ambiguous classification categories for game reviews. Therefore, in this paper, we develop an automatic classification system for game reviews that categorizes reviews into categories that are clearer and more useful for game providers. The developed system converts words in reviews into vectors using word2vec, which is a representative word embedding model, and classifies reviews into the most relevant categories by measuring the similarity between those vectors and each category. Especially, in order to choose the best similarity measure that directly affects the classification performance of the system, we have compared the performance of three representative similarity measures, the Euclidean similarity, cosine similarity, and the extended Jaccard similarity, in a real environment. Furthermore, to allow a review to be classified into multiple categories, we use a threshold-based multi-category classification method. Through experiments on real reviews collected from Google Play Store, we have confirmed that the system achieved up to 95% accuracy.

• Digital Contents
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• no.4 s.143
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• pp.108-111
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• 2005

이 세상에 완전히 새로운 창작물이 있을까? 현존하는 대부분의 창작물은 그 이전의 창작물을 학습하고 분석해서 그 토대 위에 보다 발전적으로 또는 개성 있게 표현한 것들이다. 지난 호에서 설명한 바와 같이, 저작권법은 특허법과 달리 창작성이 있는 표현(expression)을 보호하고 아이디어(idea) 자체는 보호하지 않는다. 그 이유로서, Idea는 창작이라는 빌딩을 지을 때 가장 기초가 되는 벽돌(building blocks)의 역할을 하는 것으로 그 도구를 특정인의 독점하에 두지 않고 만인(public)이 자유롭게 이용함으로써 문화, 예술 및 과학의 발전을 도모할 수 있기 때문이다. 영화나 음악과 같은 문학저작물과 달리 소프트웨어나 게임은 기능성이 강한 저작물로서, 개발자가 소스코드(source code)를 공개하지 않으면 그것의 구조나 운용원리 및 아이디어를 쉽게 이해할 수 없다. 이러한 비공개 소프트웨어의 기능적 구성요소를 이해하기 위해 산업계에서는 역분석(reverse engineering)이란 공정을 활용해 오고 있다. 그런데 아이디어를 얻기 위해 수행된 프로그램역분석 과정은 필연적으로 원프로그램(original program)의 복제를 수반 하게 되므로 그것의 저작권 침해여부가 미국과 유럽 등을 중심으로 뜨겁게 논의돼 왔다. 이에 SW 역분석이 무엇인지 그리고 역분석 을 하면 타인의 저작권을 침해하게 되는 것인지 여부를 소니 플레이스테이션 사건을 중심으로 검토해 봤다. 또한 역분석은 영업비밀을 밝혀내는데 중요한 수단으로서도 사용될 수 있는데, 그것의 법률관계도 함께 살펴봤다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2014.07a
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• pp.303-306
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• 2014

수많은 사람들이 게임을 제작 및 개발함에 있어, 많은 학자들이 다양한 방법으로 오랜 세월에 걸쳐 연구한 게임의 인문학적 정의 및 재미 이론은 현대의 게임 개발에 있어서도 그 이론적 배경을 담당하는 주춧돌의 역할을 맡고 있다. 본 논문에서는 청강문화산업대학교 게임전공의 게임 개발 프로젝트의 일환으로 구성된 '안드로메다' 팀이 Unity 3D 엔진을 기반으로 제작한 3D 생존 어드벤처 게임 "1 Hour"를 개발한 과정을 기술하였고, 그 과정에서 재미 이론의 '패턴'에 근거하여 플레이어로 하여금 몰입을 유발시키는 어드벤처 장르의 게임 디자인을 제시하는 것을 이번 연구의 목적으로 하였다. 연구 과정은 문헌 연구 및 개발 게임("1 Hour")의 플레이 테스트 등을 통해 게임에서의 몰입의 과정을 분석하였고, 몰입 유발 효과 증명을 위해 '패턴과 몰입의 상관관계'에 대한 가설들을 수립하고 실험을 실시하여 그 결과를 분석하였다.

• Knowledge Management Research
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.229-251
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• 2022

Online reviews are useful for other consumers to make reasonable purchase decisions by providing previous buyers' experiences. However, when online reviewers are biased, online reviews do not accurately reflect the true quality of the product. Therefore, we investigated the characteristics of reviewers with underreporting bias to cope with the problem of declining reliability of online reviews. In this context, this study attempted to examine the characteristics of reviewers with underreporting bias using 14,165 reviews of Steam, an online game platform. As a result of the analysis, reviewers with underreporting bias mainly write reviews positively, write reviews within a short period from the game release date, but tend to write reviews after playing games for longer time, and write reviews when purchasing high-priced games. Since this study has explored the characteristics of reviewers showing underreporting bias, it will be meaningful as a basic study to cope with the problem caused by underreporting bias.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.42
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• pp.151-175
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• 2016

The game industry has evolved from mobile games to PC online games after the smart-phone industry was opened up. In this environment, the game industry has rather been negatively developing its commercials means than the sufficient fundamental entertainment to the users. Especially, many games were released with better graphic qualities yet poor originality, continuing to be popular without enhancing the market itself. Moreover, the user's recognition level has improved. The users share their online gaming experience easily with the development of network environment. They receive the feedbacks on the quality of the game through the online channels and media by sharing them together. The high margin of the game industry will lead to the negative feedbacks of the users, effecting them to critique the content although the market looks good for now. The game industry's evolution has to be reviewed in the perspective of users, to look back at the successful cases of the past before the mobile era by analyzing and indicating the quality of the games and content's direction. This research is focused on the success factors of from the user's point of view, which has been widely claimed as a popular game franchise publicly before the mobile games had risen. WOW has been the most successful MMORPG game with its user record of 1.2 million till now. For these reasons, this study analyzes 's success factors from the user's point of view by configuring five expert groups, sequentially applying expert group survey, interview, Jobs-to-be-done and Fishbein Model as UX methodologies based on the business model to see through its long term rein in the industry. Consequently, The success factors from the user side of MMORPG provides an opportunity for the users to interact deeply with the game by (1) using well designed 'world view' over 10 years, (2) providing 'national policy' that is based on the locations of the users' culture and language, (3) providing 'expansions' with changes in time to give the digging elements to the users.

• Archives of design research
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• v.19 no.1 s.63
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• pp.119-128
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• 2006

'Play' itself is enough of a motivation for anyone to do it. Still, it will be very difficult to continue to enjoy meaningless and aimless repetition of fights, mimicking, chases, discoveries or changing of sceneries by the mechanism alone. Of course, in rare occasions there are games like Tetris which can be enjoyed on its great gameplay alone for hours. But for most cases, players need goals, initiatives, and dynamism through storytelling for their experiences to be a rich one. Validity and feasibility of storytelling in games has always existed with plenty of skepticism. However, as games evolved from some small play mechanisms for spare times to a major entertainment with recognizable volume and content, a need to keep players interested and participating has made storytelling an essential ingredient. Storytelling within games has to have different meanings and shapes to existing narratives. Hence, new definition and methodology must emerge and studies has been active. If a case can be made so that a tested and tried methodology that has been successful for other media can be substituted for games, then it can bring a new direction to the ongoing studies. This study will borrow some methodology from cinema which can sometimes be seen as opposite to games and sometimes as something games want to be alike.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.383-390
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• 2021

Recently, the drone industry is rapidly expanding as it is suggested that it will be used in various fields. As the size of the drone market grows, interest in drone-related certificates is also increasing. However, the current drone-related qualification system and education system are insufficient. Thus this study, analyzed the necessity of drone training, the features of functional games, and the effectiveness of educational training using AR through related technical studies to solve the practical difficulties of drone educational training. Later, drone educational training game contents using AR were divided into practice mode and test mode based on the drone national qualification course practical test, and the result screen was displayed at the end of the curriculum so that players could learn by level and evaluate the results on their own. In addition, constructed a hybrid processing system and network and AR operation system for response rate and response speed, implemented drone training game contents utilizing AR based on the design contents. It is expected that the use of game content using AR presented in this paper for drone training will further alleviate environmental difficulties and improve the sense of immersion in play, which will lead to a more effective drone educational training experience.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.11
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• pp.470-478
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• 2017

Costume play is an act of imitating the appearance or behavior of characters in digital games, cartoons or animations. In recent years, cosplay culture has become popular in China as the digital game is made into a movie. The number of cosers has also increased. Especially, Qiwei Zoe has been very popular among cosers because her cosplay photography reflects the understanding of the cosplay culture. A number of cosers admit that her work shows a commercial and artistic potential of cosplay photography. This paper analyzed how she maintains the contents of the original but creatively reimplementing them. She shoots the fantastic image of the character like it really exists in reality so that she can avoid excessive editing work. She emphasizes the character's action that symbolizes its personality and utilizes a variety of outdoor shooting locations similar to the original scenes. We also discussed how cosplay photographers can create cosplay photography by maintaining its artistic features.